[CPEO-BIF] Morristown (NJ) Family Service

[Lenny Siegel]

Morris' historic nonprofit gets a new start

Family Service celebrates completion of 6-year cleanup, move into 
ex-Brownfield site

PARSIPPANY DAILY RECORD
OCTOBER 15, 2006

MORRISTOWN -- Family Service of Morris County needed more space six 
years ago. But instead of opting for a building that could be renovated 
to fit its needs, the county's oldest social service agency looked no 
further than the vacant gas station next door.

Despite the property being designated a Brownfield site by the state 
Department of Environmental Protection, Family Service pushed ahead with 
its plans. Over the next six years, the agency's executive director, 
Mary Jo Buchanan, and her staff and volunteer board, would become 
experts in Brownfield cleanup and remediation, redevelopment zones, 
fundraising, and building demolition and construction.

On Saturday, the nonprofit agency celebrated completion of its new home 
on Elm Street, by holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony and community open 
house.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061015/COMMUNITIES/610150361/1203/NEWS01

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org